Whose Moon Is It Anyway?
2014; University of Pennsylvania Press; Volume: 61; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/dss.2014.0066
ISSN1946-0910
Autores Tópico(s)Space exploration and regulation
Resumo“I’ll give you the moon,” George Bailey tells his sweetheart in It’s a Wonderful Life. The romance of the promise comes from its very impossibility—we may gaze at the moon, write nursery rhymes about it, feel superstitious about its phases, but we cannot own it, whether to keep or give away. But it seems that the development of property rights on the moon—and in outer space in general—is on the horizon. At the end of last year Bigelow Aerospace, a space technology company into which founder and real estate developer Robert Bigelow has already poured $250 million, filed a request with the Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation asking that the agency grant a “zone of non-interference” around their future lunar operations.
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